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Apr 23, 2022 · On December 11, 1964, R&B legend Sam Cooke was shot to death by a hotel manager named Bertha Franklin. It was ruled self-defense, but was that really the case? On December 11, 1964, singer Sam Cooke burst into the main office of the Hacienda Motel in El Segundo outside Los Angeles.
Jan 21, 2021 · Crime scene photos appear to show abrasions on Cooke's body. Singer Etta James, who viewed Cooke's body at his funeral, wrote in her memoir that Cooke's head was "practically...
- Jordan Runtagh
Nov 13, 2009 · On December 11, 1964, in response to a reported shooting, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are dispatched to the Hacienda Motel, where they find musician Sam Cooke dead on the...
- Missy Sullivan
The body of singer Sam Cooke lies slumped in the doorway of a motel manager's apartment. According to police, he kicked in the manager's door looking for another woman, and she shot him. The shooting was later ruled justifiable homicide.
Sep 22, 2021 · Sam Cooke was 18 and Barbara Campbell was only 13 when they met on the South Side of Chicago. Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, killed in a motel tryst gone...
During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Pop Singles chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of Billboard 's Black Singles chart. In 1964, he was shot and killed by the manager of a motel in Los Angeles. [8]
Feb 10, 2019 · On December 11, 1964, aged jus 33, Sam Cooke was shot and killed by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California. The courts ruled that Cooke's death was a justifiable homicide.
